07-29-2008 04:49 AM
The issue, after running a full weekly backup, the daily backup does a full backup.
Testing new BEWS server, config is the same as the old one which works fine.
Config:
Linux server B2D
Daily Mon-Thurs OPP 3 days, append period none
Weekly Full Fri - OPP 6days , append period none
I ran a full backup last night which completed fine.
I then ran the daily diff backup (manually started) this morning and it starts to do a full backup again - what have I missed? I was expecting it to backup very little as nothing much had changed.
Is times over-lapping?
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07-31-2008 03:26 AM
Ran a full backup with the full backup now set at "Full backup using modified time" (previously it was set at "Copy files"
Ran daily diff using modified time (which it has always been set at)
Result- it runs perfectly Ok.
Stiil, doesn't explain why the other BEWS server works fine using "Full - copy files" adn daily diffs modified time. Ran with no errors and have restored data from both the full and diffs a few times.
07-29-2008 09:45 AM
Are you using INCR (Modified Time) or INCR (Archive Bit)?
do you use the same selection list for both FULL and INCR?
07-30-2008 12:55 AM
I'm using modified (as it is a Ralus agent) and the daily back is a diff.
Same selection list for full and diffs.
I noticed that the full back-up had only finished for a few hours before I ran the diff and was wondering if some process didn't have time to "catch up".
I've now left it for 24 hours and I'm going to try and run the daily diff again and see what happens - I had this happen once before, and, IIRC, I deleted the policy and started over, but at that time I was not at all familar with BEWS.
07-30-2008 02:15 AM
Well it's still doing the same - just to check I have this right.
1) I run a full back-up, as I believe this is what you have to do before running a diff
2) I the run the differential - but it appears to be a full back-up
Is this right?
07-31-2008 03:26 AM
Ran a full backup with the full backup now set at "Full backup using modified time" (previously it was set at "Copy files"
Ran daily diff using modified time (which it has always been set at)
Result- it runs perfectly Ok.
Stiil, doesn't explain why the other BEWS server works fine using "Full - copy files" adn daily diffs modified time. Ran with no errors and have restored data from both the full and diffs a few times.